08:24 AM EDT, 07/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Alibaba ( BABA ) said Wednesday it launched Qwen3-Coder, an open-source agentic AI coding model, which the company claims is its most advanced model to date.

The model is built to generate new codes, manage complex coding workflows, and debug across entire codebases, the company said.

Alibaba ( BABA ) said the Qwen3-Coder has achieved "competitive" results compared with leading models in the industry in various metrics, including agentic coding, browser use, and tool use.

Qwen3-Coder is now available on Hugging Face and GitHub, the company said, adding that developers can find the model on Qwen Chat as well as on Alibaba's ( BABA ) generative AI development platform Model Studio.

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